View of New York and Vicinity Showing Good Automobile Roads.
16 x 23 ¾ inches. Colored lithograph; few reinforcements at folds, excellent. Brilliantly colored, evocative bird’s-eye view of New York City and part of New Jersey from the height of “the Roaring Twenties.” As the title suggests, it was meant to highlight the most auto-friendly of New York City’s roads and those of the neighboring areas. The view evokes an era in which the automobile was still a relative novelty and the outer boroughs not yet fully developed. Ferry routes are prominently shown, and the East River is spanned by the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and Queensboro Bridges. The Hudson River’s Holland Tunnel had just been completed in 1927 and appears in the view. The George Washington Bridge is shown but unnamed;its construction began in October of 1927 and would not be completed until 1931. The view retains its attractively-printed cover panel on the verso.
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